Hi I've been experimenting some more. The problem is not when I scan after = I=20 preview, it is if I scan after changing the scan area. My earlier experim= ents=20 had a small image on the flatbed, and so the scan area was being amended=20 automatically. I can scan as much as I want, but only if I avoid changing= the=20 scan area. Not great.. Any clues?
(If this is a known problem in xsane 0.84, then I will do the upgrade, I = just=20 don't want to do it only to find it makes no difference.) Thanks Steve ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: xane timeout if do scan after preview Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 14:14:00 +0000 From: Steven King <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Hello I have previously had xsane etc working on my scanner, but had an acciden= t and have to do some reinstalling. (No backups - accident happened while trying to get a cd writer working .... ironic really...) Now I cannot ge= t my scanner working properly again. It seems like a very precise problem, so I hope someone can easily pinpoi= nt it: I do a scan preview, and this works well. Then I do an actual scan, and t= his fails. By "fails", I mean: the scanner jolts a bit and after a while I ge= t "usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout" in my console output. I have to restart l= inux to get the scanner available again. So I did some experiments: (a) I can do as many scan previews, one after the other, as I like - they= all work. (b) I can do as many actual scans as I like, one after the other - they a= ll work. (c) I can do an actual scan followed by a preview - they both work. So it *only* when I do a preview followed by an actual. I have said this is a new problem since I reinstalled things. That is not quite true. It now happens 100% of the time; before it was a very occasio= nal problem. When I do sane-find-scanner, it sees my scanner, which is at /dev/usbscan= ner. (Oddly, if I do that as root, it finds my scanner twice: once as /dev/usbscanner and once as /dev/usb/scanner0.) Installation info: The scanner is HP 2100C Scanjet My kernel is 2.4.10-4GB sane backends 1.0.8-5 sane-frontends 1.0.8-4 xsane 0.84-8 (after this version there are a lot of dependencies that I d= o not have, and some are quite large to download, so I do not want to use = them if I can avoid it) Any clues, please? Thanks Steve -------------------------------------------------------
